Parenting For Black Lives - Raising Free Black Children

Join the Center for African American History and Culture (CAAHC) at Virginia Union University and The Well Collective on Saturday, December 10, 2022 at 1.p.m. for the second event of our Parenting For Black Lives Series. This time we are hosting a workshop and conversation with Destini Ann Davis, parenting coach and author of Very Intentional Parenting: Awakening the Empowered Parent Within.

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For this workshop and conversation with Destini Ann Davis, we will learn how to reparent ourselves and build practical skills for raising free Black children.

Following the workshop and conversation, Destini Ann Davis will be selling signed copies of her book Very Intentional Parenting: Awakening the Empowered Parent Within.

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EVENT DETAILS:

Registration: While this event is free we need everyone to register, not only because of limited space but also because we are providing refreshments and child care.

Childcare: We will provide free childcare for this event, please use the registration form to let us know if you need childcare.

Parking: Attendees are highly encouraged to park in the parking lot next to the L. Douglas Wilder Library on Virginia Union University's campus. This parking lot can be best accessed by using the Lombardy Street entrance.

If you feel unwell, please stay home.

Questions: Contact mfaniel@vuu.edu

The Parenting For Black Lives Series engages Black communities in conversations related to this question: How do we make the lives of Black children matter? This question is prompted by the most recent racial justice movement calling for the undoing of everything, from policies to practices to perspectives, that delegitimizes Black lives, inhibits Black possibilities, and makes Black people vulnerable to premature death. Many people and organizations have offered solutions for what the world would look like if we worked to make Black Lives Matter. For us, part of that work looks like confronting how anti-Black racism shaped how we were parented and how we parent while also helping us build practices to raise free Black children.

ABOUT DESTINI ANN DAVIS

Destini Ann Davis is a certified parenting coach and author of Very Intentional Parenting: Awakening the Empowered Parent Within (Penguin Random House, 2022).

Destini isn’t a parenting expert, she’s a working mom who has learned it all simply by doing and listening, and reading every book along the way.

She is a compassionate and relatable source for navigating parenting, because takes the psychology of parenting and turns it into fun, digestible content for her community. Destini teaches with empathy and empowers parents to shift the culture of their homes to more intention, grace, and presence.

Destini advocates for peaceful parenting and positive discipline techniques that encourage both the parent and child to connect and communicate.

Her positive energy and upbeat approach to parenting has resulted in her TikTok channel growing to over 900K followers in just a few short months. Her approach to parenting isn’t clinical; it’s real life and focused on helping her followers become more peaceful and positive people so they can raise more peaceful and positive kids.

Though her social media impact seemed to happen overnight, her work and passion for positive discipline have grown through years of study, practice, and implementation. From the public school system to her own home, Destini has been developing her connection-based approach for 10+ years. She has a heart for parents and has seen firsthand how a family can transform through intentional, empowered parenting.

In a society where parents are more stressed than ever, Destini's heartfelt content reminds us of the power of presence, empathy, and playfulness. This is her passion and purpose– to remind parents of their innate power so that they can give that same gift to their children!

ABOUT VERY INTENTIONAL PARENTING: AWAKENING THE EMPOWERED PARENT WITHIN

A different kind of parenting book that helps parents improve themselves first, so they can then be better parents to their kids.

It’s time for a fresh approach to parenting!

Isn’t it time for a parenting book that is practical and relatable? Destini Ann Davis is a working mom and parenting coach who read dozens of parenting books and made all the typical parenting mistakes before realizing that in order to have a peaceful, positive relationship with her children, she first needed to have a peaceful, positive relationship with herself. Very Intentional Parenting features a fresh, down-to-earth approach to parenting from someone you can relate to. Through real-life examples from her experiences as a mom and parenting coach, she gives readers actionable strategies for tackling many of today’s most challenging parenting scenarios using positive discipline techniques, effective communication, and emotional intelligence. She’ll encourage you, coach you, and help you become the parent you’ve always desired to be. If you’re a parent looking for more connection and collaboration in your relationship with your child, you’ve come to the right place. Here’s what you’ll find inside:

• A fresh, energetic take on parenting in today’s world
• Practical tips for creating open and constructive dialogue with your kids
• Parent-focused insights to empower you to heal, so you can then avoid fear- and trauma-based parenting strategies
• Actionable steps to increase respect in your home, while still preserving the parent-child relationship